Re: lua for unicode

[Björn De Meyer <bjorn.demeyer@...>]

> Initially Unicode was limited to 2^16 positions (65,536), but this was found
> to be inadequate. The first 2^16 characters of Unicode are known as the Basic
> Multilingual Plane (BMP) and is intended be enough to represent all living
> languages, however as other messages have suggested it does not contain
> historical characters. This space is not yet full so there may be further
> characters added in the future.

Here I go nitpicking again, but it also lacks characters used 
in names,  contemporary uncommonly used characters, and 
variants of the original. I find it amazing that this space it not yet
full, as it should already have been filled with those 80000 characters
I mentioned before alone. I still get the feeling that Microsoft 
wants to keep using it's obsolete 16-bit encoding (wich is AFAIK not 
UTF-16), and therefore is holding back many characters. Then again, 
I might be a raving madman. ^_^

Anyway, as far as lua is concerned, I am convinced that UTF-8 is the way 
to go. That way, backwards compatibility and internationalisation 
of strings can go hand in hand. 


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Björn De Meyer 
bjorn.demeyer@pandora.be